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I got a couple more round here but this is whuts in one area.
 

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I just opened up my cleaning/lube/maintenance tote and my wife was in bed next to me and basically said I needed to close it up while she's in the room.

I don't blame her, as soon as I opened the tote a very strong smell permeated the air and while it smells good to me, she hates, hates, hates it. I've got 100x more than I need, but among my favorites are Lubriplate grease, CLP, Mpro 7, Slip2000, Geissele Go Juice, Ballistol, Rem Oil Aerosol, Rem Oil lubricant as well as Mobil 1 5w20 and SuperLube Aerosol, along with a handful of others.

I have some favorites, Slip2K, CLP, Superlube and last but not least, my favorite and cheapest cleaner of all time, Hoppes #9. Hoppes may not be the bougie brand you're hearing abt on YouTube, but it sure does work good and while I detest Hoppes lubricant, their cleaner and copper remover is 2nd to none in my book. Hoppes for cleaning and lube in a pinch.

Slip2K, Mpro7, Geissele Go Juice and Mobil1, are best of the best lubricants as well as protectant. I have a bunch more too, enough to last several lifetimes.
 
Here's mine. Mobil One 30w :)

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I have a little bottle of ATF, one of Mobil 1, and a small plastic jar of Super Slick grease. If the grease jar ever gets empty I'll clean it out and refill it with Valvoline red 100% synthetic wheel bearing, my grease of choice before I decided to try that black,nasty stuff that gets on everything close by. It's like it has a mind of it's own and goes looking for places to turn black.
 
Well I can't say I have an organized shelf or other location. I have stuff scattered in different places. But my number one cleaning solvent for about 50 years now is Hoppe's #9. It has always worked for me so why change it? I used their gun oil for about the same amount of time though in recent years started using Remoil in the spray can. I have cans and bottles of all three in three or four different locations along with other lubes I occasionally use.

But I love the smell of #9. It is my favorite after shave.
 
Just a few here: some Lucas stuff that is now my usual goto, a nearly empty Slip 2000EWL, a nearly empty Eds Red I got from someone, the Hoppes bottle is a blend of leftover synthetic 0W16 and 5W30 motor oil, and a jar of RIG “stainless steel lube” that I can’t recall either buying…or ever using. 🤔
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Stay safe.
 
I probably have at least one bottle of gun oil, grease of every brand sold on the store shelves somewhere in the house, basement, gun bag, truck and other places I've forgotten about. In my 60+ years of shooting I don't think I've come across one brand I think works any better than the other. Most guns just don't need anything special. . 20240326_221116 (1).jpg
 
DustyGmt said:
Slip2K, Mpro7, Geissele Go Juice and Mobil1, are best of the best lubricants as well as protectant. I have a bunch more too, enough to last several lifetimes.
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One thing I discovered by accident is that MPro7 and Mobil1 mixed approximately 50/50 makes, initially, a very thick oil. This thick oil (which I liked pretty well as a gun oil) has gradually continued to thicken to the point that it has turned to grease in the bottle in about four years. Also, during this period I have added more and more Mobil1 to the bottle, and it has still continued to thicken over time.

On the general topic of lubricants and mixing lubricants... for a few years I had a friend and business acquaintance who was one of the world's top authorities on lubricants and fuel additives (among other things, he ran Chevron's R&D labs when they invented Techron). He told me once that when you start mixing oils, such as engine oils (which all have their own additive packages) with off-the-shelf oil additive products, you have no idea what the result in the crankcase will be BECAUSE the additive packages can do funky things when mixed together. He strongly recommended against doing that kind of thing (putting additives into your engine oil). When I saw what happened when mixing the MPro7 and Mobil1, it brought to mind what my friend the lubricants expert had told me.
 
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I6turbo said:
One thing I discovered by accident is that MPro7 and Mobil1 mixed approximately 50/50 makes, initially, a very thick oil. This thick oil (which I liked pretty well as a gun oil) has gradually continued to thicken to the point that it has turned to grease in the bottle in about four years. Also, during this period I have added more and more Mobil1 to the bottle, and it has still continued to thicken over time.

On the general topic of lubricants and mixing lubricants... for a few years I had a friend and business acquaintance who was one of the world's top authorities on lubricants and fuel additives (among other things, he ran Chevron's R&D labs when they invented Techron). He told me once that when you start mixing oils, such as engine oils (which all have their own additive packages) with off-the-shelf oil additive products, you have no idea what the result in the crankcase will be BECAUSE the additive packages can do funky things when mixed together. He strongly recommended against doing that kind of thing (putting additives into your engine oil). When I saw what happened when mixing the MPro7 and Mobil1, it brought to mind what my friend the lubricants expert had told me.
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If I wasn't already stocked to the gills, I would purchase a supply of Geissele Go-Juice, it could be just like any other lube but Bill Geissele has some kind of engineering degree, has extensive knowledge and expertise on metals and friction re lubricants from a career in the railroad industry, and he seems to really know his stuff. I only use a small amount of Go-juice from the free stuff he send with triggers but it does work well, cant really say if it's any better than everything else, but certainly better than some.
 
I6turbo said:
One thing I discovered by accident is that MPro7 and Mobil1 mixed approximately 50/50 makes, initially, a very thick oil. This thick oil (which I liked pretty well as a gun oil) has gradually continued to thicken to the point that it has turned to grease in the bottle in about four years. Also, during this period I have added more and more Mobil1 to the bottle, and it has still continued to thicken over time.

On the general topic of lubricants and mixing lubricants... for a few years I had a friend and business acquaintance who was one of the world's top authorities on lubricants and fuel additives (among other things, he ran Chevron's R&D labs when they invented Techron). He told me once that when you start mixing oils, such as engine oils (which all have their own additive packages) with off-the-shelf oil additive products, you have no idea what the result in the crankcase will be BECAUSE the additive packages can do funky things when mixed together. He strongly recommended against doing that kind of thing (putting additives into your engine oil). When I saw what happened when mixing the MPro7 and Mobil1, it brought to mind what my friend the lubricants expert had told me.
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Two friends of mine are oil and lubricant blenders here in So Cal. They mix into the specific base, let’s say it is for a 10W40 dino oil, whatever additives the customer wants for their packaged product. The next customer gets their additive blends for their brand, and so on.

They both say that mixing similar oil brands themselves aren’t an issue, say Quaker State and Pennzoil 10W40 dino oil, but they have mentioned in the past that adding chemicals outside of the oil can occasionally cause weird things to happen to motor oil in engines, too.

I have been pretty happy with the Lucas gun oil so far. Like any boutique gun oil its probably overpriced, but I don’t use it by the gallon so I’m ok paying for it.

Stay safe.
 
1) Ballistol for its combined C-L-P functions.
2) Mobil One Auto Grease for the receivers. A decent product isn't required to have the word "gun" in the title.☺️

These guys are in the German Bundeswehr. Reportedly the German Navy "Kampfschwimmer" ("combat swimmers"), roughly equal to Navy SEALs still use Ballistol.

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Not just on a shelf but also scattered around; Sorry, no pictures! :(

Several cans of CLP Lubricant
Several cans of Brake Cleaner
A couple quart bottles of Shooters Choice Bore Cleaner
A small bottle of Shooters Choice Firepower lube (for neck turning)
A can of Kroil
A 35mm film canister of Cotton Picker Spindle Grease
A qt jar of Graphite ( for my Forster neck lube gizmo)
A can of 3-in-1 oil (for my press)
A can of Tap-Ez
A qt can of Mineral Spirits
A qt can of PVC pipe cleaner ( mostly for removing sharpie writing on coffee cans)

Probably some other stuff that I'm forgetting.
 
Riomouse911 said:
.... they have mentioned in the past that adding chemicals outside of the oil can occasionally cause weird things to happen to motor oil in engines, too.
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Yes, if anything close to what happened in my MPro7/Mobil1 bottle were to happen in an engine crankcase, it'd be terrible for the engine. Viscosity-wise, I'd say the resulting viscosity is close to refrigerated honey.
 
Great replies everyone. I've been wanting to try other lubricants. Guess I'm getting some Ballistol soon! And maybe some of that Go-Juice.
 
I guess I don't understand the obsession some people have with gun oil. I mean, if yours is doing something wrong, then by all means replace it, but otherwise, I wonder what people hope to gain.

(I have the usual collection, minus the one or two cans of stuff that sucked. I normally just grab one the cans of Ballistol that sit around, but if I'm closer to the "Box 'o lube" then I just grab one of them. They all do pretty much the same thing.)
 
.38 Special said:
I guess I don't understand the obsession some people have with gun oil.
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Well, I guess I'm obsessed or I just like to experiment, but for me it's just a history of having spent time in a wide variety of environments (middle east desert, high desert, mountains in winter, south Florida, western Washington in the rainy season which is like 11 months long, SE Asian and central American jungles) with a wide variety of firearms... it's not always just that one product that works for everything all the time...
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By comparison, my ''assortment'' of lubricants is just plain old boring. One 4 ounce bottle of BreakFree LP, nothing else, not even grease. Bore cleaner/solvent selection (somewhat 'off topic ') is also boring—a of a half bottle of Hoppes #9.
 
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